OCR Text |
Show Milford Wins in Thanksgiving Foot Ball Game-7 to 6 Milford is avenged for the Armistice Armis-tice day defeat administered by the '. reaver warn. Thanksgiving was cele-j cele-j brated in a splendid style by the Mil-! Mil-! ford high school, by defeating tno j Heaver team and then ending it uv by on. of th? most successful dances given in the high school. The game was scheduled here to.-iwo to.-iwo o'clock but due to a misunder- standing, the Beaver team did not appear u net il three o'clock, j The kick off was received by Milford. Mil-ford. taking tha ball on the twenty 'yard line and bringing it back to thu j thirty-five. From there the Milforci team took the ball in succa;sion of ! bucksi and off tackle plays to the ' Beaver three yitrd line. At this potiw , Milford was called off-side and thtf ball was down on the eight yard line with third down. Patterson smashed through for a touchdown on. the nex down. Ahem kicking goal from place ment on the twenty yard line. ' The rushing game of the lighter ! .Milford team confuted the Beaver aggregation ag-gregation for the moment, but they ' siiira recovered and the game becamv ; more bitterly contested as it progres-' progres-' -ed. Braver made consistent gains w-'th the use of the wide end run. Poulsou carrying the ball for the greater part of the time. The heavier line however was unable to puncturo Hi" Tiger'.-- defense, and the aerial game was broken up on every attempt. at-tempt. In (lie (bird quarter, after o punt bad gone out of bound for u touch-back, touch-back, Milford attempted a pass play which was fumbled. Beaver recovered recover-ed and ran for a touchdown. The attempt at-tempt at try for point, which waj made as a line- buck was smothered, j however and the score became 7 to 6 ' which was the final score. Beave. inrrattned .several times during tne second half, but were unable to put in the necoisMary punch to put tno I tii 1 1 across, the end runs, being theli-only theli-only ground gainers, tried the back Held that the attacks became I weaki r and weaker aa the game progressed. pro-gressed. A number of injuries to Beavfcc l!.i.ers, who were apparently not alt full recovered from the effects of (heir Armistice day clash, resulted in a wi nking of the lineup during the i second half. i The game ended with the ball lu M i 1 ford's possession, apparently head ed for another touchdown. , Tbe play iv. and the coach are cer-llainly cer-llainly grateful for the Bplondid support sup-port afforded by both the townspeople townspeo-ple and t ho st uden t body. 'Pile Milford men are to be congratulated congrat-ulated for the spirit which they showed show-ed in changing a 30 to 0 defeat to a victory, e.iicrially since the victor was ..am by straight football, a test noi only of skill but largely of spirit ' and perseverance, . |